Top 4 Quotes by Adrian Piper

One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.

One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.

Adrian Piper

Artist, Reason, Reactions

Adrian Piper (1974). “Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object”

Racism is a visual pathology.

Adrian Piper

Racism, Pathology, Visuals

My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.

Adrian Piper

Communication, Hands, Land